Foreign News: Anatomy of a Feud

Across the bleak barrens of prewar eastern Poland armies surged last
week, as they have for 1,000 years. The stolid peasants who saw the Red
Army drive bewildered Germans back are descendants of patient men who
have straightened up to watch fire & sword swoop by for 30 generations.

Vladimir the Great of Kiev took the lands along the Bug and the San from
the Poles in 981. Boleslas the Brave, second king of Poland, stormed
Kiev in 1018. These were but the first recorded instances in a long
line of futile attempts to nail down a firm frontier where no...